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3 April 2017

A Very Welcome Parcel in the Post!

This morning, an eagerly-awaited parcel arrived from The Gambia.  Some of our children have been corresponding with pupils in our link school - Serrekunda Lower Basic School  - over the last year. They have been telling each other about themseves and what it is like in their schools. The next set…

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3 April 2017

No More Homework...

Well, not exactly. Over Easter and up until SATs I now expect our children to focus on their revision (through books and past papers etc.) and so homework will be suspended until the week after their exams in order to allow them to concentrate fully on revision! 

Many thanks- as always- for…

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31 March 2017

Penultimate Top Table of the Term

Give yourselves a Super Learner point if you knew what penultimate meant! (I had to look it up). ANOTHER enjoyable lunch with last week's Star Award winners - CHEERS!

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31 March 2017

Construction Corner

The last one (with some trainee teachers) for this term. Where has the time gone?

Choosing for next term again next Friday. 

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31 March 2017

Fingerprints

Year Two would love to be the first class to use this technology in school so could all consent forms be returned so that we can access this time saving device and empower our children.

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31 March 2017

The World of Glass Excursion

Please return your consent form and payment ASAP ( if you haven't already done so) so that your child can take part in this excursion to celebrate our knowledge of materials from this terms topic.

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31 March 2017

Easter Celebration Preparation

Don't forget that your child will need to make an Easter Hat at home for our Easter Assembly that is held on Thursday morning. There is a prize for each class. Please bring your hat to school on Thursday morning ready for our parade.

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31 March 2017

2d shapes

Take a look at these shapes, your child should be able to name a square, rectangle, circle, triangle, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon and maybe some of the others including the ability to sort them into shapes with similar features or properties.

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31 March 2017

It's all about reading...

This week Mrs Robinson and I have been unable to choose Reader of the Week as the children haven't been demonstrating their usual high standards of reading at home. Please keep up with your child's regular reading to help build stamina, word recognition, comprehension and spelling which is a life…

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31 March 2017

Spelling success stories...

Well done everyone who achieved full marks more than a third of class achieved this. Of the children that gained full marks only one quarter were boys meaning three quarters were girls. Come on boys I know you can do this let's even the fractions out next week!

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